Some Los Angeles business owners are taking matters into their own hands amid the city’s homelessness crisis.

According to the Los Angeles Times, there are about 59,000 homeless people in the county, with the population in the city of Los Angeles growing 16% this year to more than 36,000 and the majority living on city streets.

Peter Mozgo and his wife, attorney Maria Janossy, told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that they’re losing potential customers because more and more people are sleeping on the sidewalks around their business, the Hungarian Cultural Alliance. In response, they set up about 140 large planter boxes, hoping it would force homeless people to set up their tents elsewhere.

Keith Megargle

Ocean Shores